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Author Biography

Jennifer Howe peace is assistant professor of interfaith studies at Andover Newton Theological School and co-director of CIRCLE: The Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education (a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School). Rabbi Or N. Rose is director of the Center for Global Judaism at Hebrew College and co-director of CIRCLE. Gregory Mobley is professor of Christian Bible at Andover Newton Theological School and co-founder of CIRCLE. He is an ordained American Baptist minister.

Table of Contents

Foreword

p. xi

Acknowledgments

p. xv

Introduction

p. xvii

Encountering the Neighbor

Entering without Knocking

p. 3

Water Carriers

p. 7

What Would Roy and Alice Do?

p. 11

The Hijabi Monologues

p. 17

Interfaith Incognito: What a Hindu Nun Learned from Evangelical Christians

p. 20

God Is Greater

p. 25

My Ever-Present Interfaith Interlocutors

p. 30

It Begins with a Text

p. 36

Viewing Home Anew

Trouble Praying

p. 45

What the Rabbi Taught the Reverend about the Baby Jesus

p. 48

When I Get to Heaven

p. 51

An Accidental Dialoguer

p. 56

A Monk's Gift

p. 62

The Prayer God Could Not Answer: A Métis-Aboriginal Encounter

p. 68

How a Daoist Fire-Walking Ceremony Made Me an Episcopalian

p. 73

Redrawing Our Maps

Belief-O-Matic and Me

p. 83

Gambling on Hope: One Shared Faith

p. 86

"Never Was There a Time…": Crossing Over to Hinduism from Roman Catholicism through the Bhagavad Gita

p. 93

Dearly Beloved

p. 100

Why Don't You Just Convert?

p. 106

The State of the Heart in Multifaith Relationships

p. 109

"This War of Words and This Tumult of Opinions": The Beginning of a Dialogue with Mormons

p. 112

"Oh How You've Spun Me 'Round, Darling"

p. 117

Theological Goosebumps: A Turning Point in My Interfaith Journey

p. 120

Unpacking Our Belongings

Never Again: A Muslim Visits the Nazi Death Camps

p. 127

The Lessons We Learn as Children

p. 131

Encountering the Muslim "Other" at Harvard

p. 135

It's Complicated

p. 138

What I Learned in Zenica about Forgiveness

p. 144

Learning to See God in Everyone

p. 149

The Ambiguities of Liberation and Oppression: Assuming Responsibility for One's Tradition

p. 154

All My Relations

p. 159

Stepping across the Line

A Christian Confronts a Zen Roan

p. 165

Double-Edged Daggers

p. 172

Jesus Appeared to Babaji

p. 177

Under the Bodhi Tree

p. 182

How We Pray

p. 185

The Canine-Buddhist Dialogue

p. 188

Otherness and Wonder: A Christian Experiences Moksha

p. 192

What Mast Ram Baba Dropped into My Bowl

p. 197

Finding Fellow Travelers

What I Found in the Chapel

p. 207

If Muhammad Had Not Spoken

p. 211

Sewing in Silence

p. 214

The Solitude of Contemplative Life: A Buddhist-Benedictine Friendship

p. 220

Holy Chutzpah: Lessons from William Sloane Coffin

p. 224

Out Beyond: Forging Resistance and Hope through Multireligious Friendship

p. 228

Finding Faith on the Road: Where Deep Commitment and Genuine Openness Meet